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A Hippo Banquet, Kingsley

A Hippo Banquet, Kingsley

'While engaged on this hunt I felt the earth quiver under my feet, and heard a soft big soughing sou..

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A Modest Proposal, Swift

A Modest Proposal, Swift

'... a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food...'Swift's devastating short satire on how to ..

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Anthem For Doomed Youth, Owen

Anthem For Doomed Youth, Owen

'Tonight he noticed how the women's eyesPassed from him to the strong men that were whole.'The true ..

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Caligula, Suetonius

Caligula, Suetonius

'Because of his baldness and hairiness, he announced it was a capital offence for anyone either to l..

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Circe and the Cyclops, Homer

Circe and the Cyclops, Homer

'You must be Odysseus, man of twists and turns...'The tales of Odysseus's struggle with a man-eating..

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Goblin Market, Rossetti

Goblin Market, Rossetti

'She kissed and kissed her with a hungry mouth'A selection of Rossetti's most famous poems, from the..

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How a Ghastly Story Was Brought to Light by a Common or Garden Butcher's Dog, Hebel

How a Ghastly Story Was Brought to Light by a Common or Garden Butcher's Dog, Hebel

'The devil gave the woman a nudge: "Look at that belt full of money peeping out from under the butch..

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How We Weep and Laugh at the Same Thing, de Montaigne

How We Weep and Laugh at the Same Thing, de Montaigne

'No one characteristic clasps us purely and universally in its embrace.'A selection of charming essa..

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Jason and Medea, Apollonius of Rhodes

Jason and Medea, Apollonius of Rhodes

'The Argonauts were terrified at the sight. But Jason planting his feet apart stood to receive them,..

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Kasyan from the Beautiful Lands, Turgenev

Kasyan from the Beautiful Lands, Turgenev

"No, no, I've got your word for it, I've got to die ... you promised me ... you told me ..."Turgenev..

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Lips too Chilled, Basho

Lips too Chilled, Basho

'Nothing more lonely -'A selection of Basho's most magical haikuIntroducing Little Black Classics: 8..

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My Dearest Father, Mozart

My Dearest Father, Mozart

'They wanted me to give a concert; I wanted them to beg me. And so they did. I gave a concert.'A sel..

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Of Street Piemen, Mayhew

Of Street Piemen, Mayhew

'...a good bit of spice to give the critlings a flavour, and plenty of treacle to make the mince-mea..

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Olalla, Stevenson

Olalla, Stevenson

'Is it me you love, friend? or the race that made me?'A gothic novella about love, torment and doome..

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On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts, De Quincey

On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts, De Quincey

'People begin to see that something more goes to the composition of a fine murder than two blockhead..

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Remember, Body..., Cavafy

Remember, Body..., Cavafy

'All those excessive, useless regrets...'A collection of nostalgic, erotic poetry from one of the gr..

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The Dolphins, the Whales and the Gudgeon, Aesop

The Dolphins, the Whales and the Gudgeon, Aesop

'An ass, clothed in the skin of a lion...'Aesop's animal fables are some of the earliest stories eve..

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The Eve of St Agnes

The Eve of St Agnes

'Hoodwink'd in faery fancy...'  This volume contains a selection of Keats's greatest verse - in..

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The Figure in the Carpet, James

The Figure in the Carpet, James

'Did she know and if she knew would she speak?'The story of an unsolved literary mystery that explor..

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The Maldive Shark, Melville

The Maldive Shark, Melville

'No voice, no low, no howl is heard; the chief sound of life here is a hiss.'Stories and poems by He..

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The Old Nurse's Story, Gaskell

The Old Nurse's Story, Gaskell

'Even in the stillness of that dead-cold weather, I had heard no sound of little battering hands upo..

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The Voyage of Sir Francis Drake Around the Whole Globe, Hakluyt

The Voyage of Sir Francis Drake Around the Whole Globe, Hakluyt

'Their fruits be diverse and plentiful, as nutmegs, ginger, long pepper, lemons, cucumbers, cocos, s..

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The Wife of Bath, Chaucer

The Wife of Bath, Chaucer

'Those husbands that I had,Three of them were good and two were bad.The three that I call "good" wer..

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The Yellow Wall-Paper, Gilman

The Yellow Wall-Paper, Gilman

'The color is hideous enough, and unreliable enough, and infuriating enough, but the pattern is tort..

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Three Tang Dynasty Poets, Wei

Three Tang Dynasty Poets, Wei

'Can I bear to leave these blue hills?'A generous selection from three of the greatest and most enjo..

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To-morrow, Conrad

To-morrow, Conrad

'It was as if the sea, breaking down the wall protecting all the homes of the town, had sent a wave ..

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Traffic, Ruskin

Traffic, Ruskin

'You shall have thousands of gold pieces; - thousands of thousands - millions - mountains of gold: w..

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Trimalchio's Feast, Petronius

Trimalchio's Feast, Petronius

'I blush to say what happened next.'A satirical portrait of a drunken, orgiastic Roman banquet, host..

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Wailing Ghosts, Songling

Wailing Ghosts, Songling

'...revealing great shining fangs more than three inches long.'Some of the most macabre and wonderfu..

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Well, They are Gone, and Here Must I Remain, Coleridge

Well, They are Gone, and Here Must I Remain, Coleridge

'Ye Ice-Falls! Ye that from the mountain's browAdown enormous ravines slope amain -...'A selection o..

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Woman Much Missed, Hardy

Woman Much Missed, Hardy

'Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me...'After the death of his wife Emma, a grief-stri..

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